{"id":26325,"date":"2025-07-26T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26325\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:03:07","slug":"east-notes-blake-red-wings-prokhorov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26325\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Blake, Red Wings, Prokhorov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late Thursday, the Hurricanes raised some eyebrows when they <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/07\/hurricanes-sign-jackson-blake-to-eight-year-extension.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/blakeja02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jackson Blake<\/a> to an eight-year, $45MM contract extension after just one professional season.\u00a0 It was reported at the time that the deal carries some salary deferrals; PuckPedia relays (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PuckPedia\/status\/1948897443338457102\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that a total of $15.9MM in signing bonus money over five seasons in the agreement is deferred to July 1st, 2034, the day after the deal expires.\u00a0 In doing so, the cap hit goes from $5.625MM per season to $5.117MM.\u00a0 As part of the contract, Blake also gets a 10-team no-trade clause starting in July 2031 that will remain in place until 15 days before the 2034 trade deadline.\u00a0 Given that the other years of the deal cover RFA-eligible seasons, he wasn\u2019t eligible for trade protection in those campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Eastern Conference:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/detroithockeynow.com\/2025\/07\/23\/red-wings-probably-arent-done-retooling-teams-defense-lagesson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bob Duff of Detroit Hockey Now speculates<\/a> that the Red Wings might not be done with moves on the back end this summer. They added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bernaja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob Bernard-Docker<\/a> and re-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lageswi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">William Lagesson<\/a> but with the tendency to carry eight defensemen under GM Steve Yzerman, a bit more depth would be useful so that they don\u2019t necessarily have to bring up a youngster from AHL Grand Rapids at the first sign of injury.\u00a0 Alternatively, they could stand to benefit from trying to upgrade their current top six, a group that largely struggled last season and has pretty much been untouched over the offseason.<br \/>\nIslanders prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/996513\/daniil-prokhorov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniil Prokhorov<\/a> has signed a tryout deal with Dynamo Moscow, the KHL team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dynamo.ru\/news\/231280-chetyire_hokkeista_podpisali_probnyie_soglasheniya_s_belo_golubyimi_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a>. The winger was a second-round pick last month, going 42nd overall after putting up 20 goals in 43 games at the MHL level.\u00a0 A big winger standing six-foot-six, Prokhorov is certainly a project player for New York and will need a few more years back home whether he\u2019s able to crack the KHL roster this season or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late Thursday, the Hurricanes raised some eyebrows when they signed winger Jackson Blake to an eight-year, $45MM contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,748,21163,742,18653,8030,750,82],"class_list":["post-26325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-daniil-prokhorov","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-jackson-blake","tag-khl","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}